Gyakushû! Satsujin ken (1974)

User Rating:

5.9/10   

Director:

Shigehiro Ozawa

Writers:

Kôji Takada (screenplay)
Masahiro Shimura (screenplay)

Release Date:

February 1979 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Crime | Drama

Tagline:

Who can stop Sonny Chiba's fist of fury?

Plot:

Terry Sugury is hired to recover one of two tapes containing a formula for making heroin for a price of 200 dollars a pound...

Plot Keywords:

Tragic Hero | Sequel | Anti Hero | Warrior | Grindhouse

Cast

Sonny Chiba	...	Takuma Tsurugi
Reiko Ike	...	Aya Ôwada
Koji Wada	...	Takera Kunigami
Tatsuo Endo	...	Rikizo Watanabe
Akira Shioji	...	Gô Ôwada
Tsuyoshi Ôtsuka	...	Ittetsu Sakuragi
Frankie Black	...	Dorian Howard
Shingo Yamashiro	...	TV Anchor
Masafumi Suzuki	...	Kendo Masaoka
Etsuko Shihomi	...	Kahô Huo-Feng
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Masaharu Arikawa	...	Takao Nagatomo
Cathy	...	Kimiko Nakayama
Willy Dosey	...	Wolf
Seizo Fukumoto	...	Gondo
Jan Hermanson	...	Billy
Masataka Iwao	...	Yamane
Eizo Kitamura	...	Seigen Ôwada
Fuyuki Murakami	...	Shonosuke Iizuka
Kinji Nakamura	...	Tsuneo Ushida
Kazumoto Saito	...	Tanabe
Shunji Sasaki	...	Yokomitsu
Isao Takanami	...	Moriyama
Kyôko Tsukasa	...	Satoko Yamada

Also Known As:

Revenge! The Killing Fist (USA) (literal English title)
Street Fighter Counterattacks!
The Street Fighter's Last Revenge
The Streetfighter's Last Revenge (International: English title)

Runtime:

83 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

UK:15 | Finland:K-18 | USA:R | Netherlands:16 | USA:X (original rating) (uncut version) | Canada:13+ (Quebec)

Company:

Toei Company

Movie Connections:

Followed by Onna hissatsu ken (1974)

A sad end to the series.....

Well to be fair, matters do at least get off to a cracking start in this, the final chapter in this infamous series of flicks. Sadly however, it has to be said that what follows is tedious at best and moronic at worst.

Fans of the violent excesses that these flicks are most notorious for will be in for a major disappointment here as the said scenes have been well nigh omitted entirely with our hero (the incomparable Sonny Chiba) adopting more of a subtle approach to matters. In fact, our protagonist is now shown adopting multiple disguises in order to accomplice his nefarious ends (a far cry from his head on brutality as displayed in the first two films!)

Easily the least of the series, there's really very little to recommend here other than the rather cool final fight between Chiba and his nemesis (in other words just fast forward to the end)

Overall then, this proves to be a somewhat sad way to end the series. Oh well, one can always re-watch the first two over again I suppose…..